Tag: 79th street

The 79th Street subway station on the 1 line has been extremely overcrowded in recent days, particularly at rush hour, as hundreds of people

The city has completed changes to Riverside Drive at 72nd and 79th streets in an effort to make those areas more pedestrian-friendly. Both intersections

The intersections at Riverside Drive and West 72nd street and West 79th street are notorious trouble spots. The city's Department of Transportation is planning

On Saturday at about 12:30 a.m., police responded to a report of shots fired in front of 2540 Broadway at 95th street, but they

Two workers put plexiglass over the Banksy painting on 79th street just off of Broadway late last night, just in time to protect the piece from a vandal calling himself Ronan who tagged over it: "Let the Streets Decide."

Banksy has finally graced our neighborhood with some of his graffiti art! The British artist, who is spending a month putting up art in New York, has put up his most recent piece on 79th street off

DSW's corporate office has finally confirmed what we first reported more than a month ago: the discount shoe store is opening a 32,000 square foot store on 79th Street in the old Filene's Basement spot. A reader recently reported to us that construction has already begun, and a store rep ...

It's no secret that the Upper West Side has been rocked by the Recession, at least in relative terms (we're not Florida or Las Vegas). Dozens of stores have closed, and some entire blocks have the air of ghost towns. One of those blocks, on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and ...

Syms Corp., which owns Filene's Basement, declared bankruptcy yesterday and will be liquidating its stores -- including the big store on Broadway between 79th Street and 80th Street -- over the holidays. Syms went bankrupt after attempting in vain to find a buyer or otherwise save the store. The liquidation ...

Three stores that have been vacant for months on Amsterdam Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets could soon (but not too soon) be bustling with new business. That block, in the heart of the Upper West Side, has been looking a lot like Detroit: for much of the past year, ...